What about the anime nurse one? At least you don't have to click on that. (Example: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fopenwrt.org%2F)

No, hosting a site is cheap. You can run most of these BBSes etc on a cheap $1/month VPS.

The problem is, as always, attracting readers, which is now impossible with the genAI wall Google is putting between searchers and websites.

The open web is dead.

The mods who boycotted found their forums handed over to scabs by Reddit's admins, and very often were told to fuck off by their forum's users who didn't care how much damage the API changes did as long as they got their "fix" of cat videos each day.

Reddit is a very, very, different place to what it was pre-boycott. Moderation has gone way downhill, with lazy feckless "mods" depending upon automoderators to shadow delete posts that vaguely fit some criteria, often as ridiculous as "This contains a link". These are not the same mods.

OK: Why is open source being used for a profit a problem? Why is Amazon adopting an open source tool a problem? On what planet does WPEngine "seem to think they own Matt Mullenweg" when actually they've been the victim of an abusive campaign by the latter who's tried to pull the FOSS rug from under them after previously welcoming their participation and contributions to the WP ecosystem?

As for the "AI companies who have used it all for training", that's the nearest you've come up to a legitimate complaint but that's a problem with copyright law in the US. Given the Windows source code has leaked multiple times, I suspect that's in their training sets too. We need to reform copyright law so the people whose works were incorporated into the genAI training sets co-own the output of them, whether "open source", forums, books, or whatever else.

And the sad is that'll effectively remove a huge amount of the open web. Search engines will have difficulty indexing it, with the result that you won't be able to find that information anywhere except by going to Reddit and using their inadequate search tools directly.

You can find a lot of answers to relatively obscure questions by, today, searching for site:reddit.com blah blah blah, and that's going to go away if this continues.

I don't completely blame Reddit themselves, though they've been closing up their website for a while, but it's another consequence of the absurd pivot to genAI.

I keep hearing the bubble is about to pop. It hasn't. Modern civilization depends on it popping. I don't think we're going to make it.

Its reply to me:

"Yes, in large part."

But that is mostly caused by NVidia's lackluster driver support in Linux.

Uh, sure.

Governments are people.

"These fuckers are why you are seeing less physical switch games as an example"

Buwhaha

This argument makes zero sense.

First, people are asking what the number is, they already know that it's being used to justify a two week release schedule.

Second, I think most people here would like to know what on earth a volume of unknown bugs has to do with a two week release schedule. That's not how bug fixes works.

- If bugs are causing problems NOW for people and/or are security issues, you release ASAP, you don't want for a rolling release.
- If bugs are not causing problems now, you provide testers with a reasonable period of time to test the software out in the field before doing a release.

Two week release time isn't sane, it's PR that's proposing something apparently stupid in response to something people might be concerned about. It's like a company bragging it's making its employees work 23 hour a day shifts to get things done.

I already swore off Ubuntu because of the snap/Firefox fiasco. But if I hadn't, this dumbass fucking policy that all but guarantees hastily untested "bug fixes" are going to be foisted onto Ubuntu users who have made software choices that reflect a desire for stability and reliability, would be the reason I switch.

What a bunch of fucking cretins.

Yeah, the curl devs (to name one project I monitor) are still having to swat away the vast majority of bug reports from what I've seen even if they're being far more positive about slopreports than I would be.

I'm also interested in how many bugs are being added en-mass by people trying to fix minor issues an LLM identified.

> What is mislabeled as AI today was in fact named "Expert systems" back in the 60s

This is completely untrue. Expert systems and LLMs have absolutely nothing in common.

Yeah, I know what you mean. I just did it the easy way - dropped out of university, eventually move to Montreal where it was almost *difficult* to be a programmer and not end up at a game studio. Thankfully the industry grew in Toronto as well and I was able to move back after some lovely years there.

They want the regulators focused on the wrong things:

- They want the regulators to treat their products as non-fraudulent
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios, rather than AI companies taking over businesses that realize too late they no longer have control over their own companies any more because their employees no longer have business knowledge, and they need now to subscribe to the AI companies to stay in business.
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios instead of environmental damage
- They want the regulators obsessing about Skynet scenarios instead of economic harm, such as the huge sums being used to make personal computers unaffordable.

That's what this is about. It's a classic magician... and con-artist's... trick of focusing the attention of your audience/victim on something else to keep them distracted from what the rest of you is doing. A magician will make a show of opening their sleeves and tapping a hat with a magic wand so you don't look at his foot pushing a lever under the table. AI companies are making a show of alarming you about Skynet so you don't see the attempt to steal the entire economy and make it dependent upon your non-product.

I hope you've all read the Aschenbrenner paper from 2024.

https://situational-awareness....

Never mind Trump's rambling speaking style. He's aware of it and he likes it.

We know that people in the Trump admin have, at minimum, been briefed on the Aschenbrenner paper. I assume some of them have read the whole thing.

The point he's making - that we're on the cusp of ASI, and the USA MUST not get there wildly behind, for example, China, is correct. And that the USA should not be shackled by an international framework that rival nations are going to ignore anyway.

He's directionally correct, even if you think he's too stupid to know what he's agreeing with.